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Natively, it's impossible to run 16 bit code on a 64bit OS. The only chance you have is to run it inside a VM. If you run Windows 7 Professional, go online and download Windows XP mode, which is essentially a 32bit XP VM. Inside of that VM you can run 16bit code (like DOS programs) again.

Every time I run dosbox it works fine for about a minute, then makes my whole computer flip from landscape to portrait orientation. Any ideas why that would be happening? Drivers, etc all updated/installed, happing on a fresh copy of 7 Ultimate 32
bitJessie Holloway MCDST

Natively, it's impossible to run 16 bit code on a 64bit OS. The only chance you have is to run it inside a VM. If you run Windows 7 Professional, go online and download Windows XP mode, which is essentially a 32bit XP VM. Inside of that VM you can
run 16bit code (like DOS programs) again.

Hope that helps,

Daniel

I'm a former Digital Equipment employee. It sounds really strage to hear, from a former partner that developed a Virtual DOS Machine for OSF/1 (64-bit Unix flavor - it was even a FOREIGN OS for Microsoft) EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS AGO (1993)
that ran DOS apps (even games) perfectly and even faster than an average i386 did by that time...

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